Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing as a crucible for great education

[Anne Jackson (a.jackson]

Dear Racheli and others
You might want to check out The Separation of School and State Alliance,
www.sepschool.org  and books by John Taylor Gatto. When I started teaching,
in the 60's, my first book was Summerhill, by A.S. Neil. This led me to read
most of the literature in that era, from John Holt and others who wanted to
reform education.

As a single mom, I couldn't find a way out of the system, and my daughter
was chosen for Hunter College Nursery, Elementary, and High School (free),
so  we managed. But what I learned impacted the way I raised her, and how I
interacted with my students. The merger of home schooling with cohousing and
peaceful parenting/concious communication thrills me. I look forward to
learning of your progress.  Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Racheli Gai" <jnpalme [at] attglobal.net>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Cohousing as a crucible for great education


> From Racheli
> Sonora Cohousing, Tucson.
> Hi Fran and others,
> Just recently we started a small group meetings (once every
> two weeks) of parents interested in ideas around issues of unschooling and
> application of Non Violent Communication methods to interaction with our
> kids.  (And hopefully with other people's kids, too :)) I'm the only one
> in the community at the moment who has an un-schooled child, but sooner or
> later there might be others.  Also, we feel that much can be done to
> minimize coercion even when one's children are  schooled.
>
> R.
>
> >Greetings,
> >This fall we, Heartwood Cohousing, began a homeschool cooperative.  We
> >are very pleased with the results, so far it is running smoothly.  I am
> >also interested in what is happening with cohousing and the education
> >movement. Maybe there will be a space as The Cohousing Network
> >restructures for us to track the bigger picture, share ideas, ect.
>
> >Fran Hart, hartmagic [at] frontier.net
>
> >>
> >> Dear Cohousing Folks,
> >>
> >> Anyone know of a cohousing project with the express purpose of
> >> education?  Or even better, a school with cohousing as a fundamental
> >> supportive means?  I don't need much out of geography besides great
> >> teachers and I'm tired of paying exorbitant property values to gamble
at
> >> getting them.  Would love to band together with other energetic parents
on
> >> this issue.  Start a micro-school, recruit great teachers, live near a
> >> thriving school, homeschooling, or preferably all of the above.
> >>
> >> -- Bob Stein, stein [at] visibone.com
> >>
> >> P.S.  Now searching among Cohousing and Sudbury schools to find if they
> >> intersect anywhere on the planet:
> >>
> >> http://www.cohousing.org/cmty/groups-us.html
> >> http://www.sudval.org/links.html
> >>
> >>
>
>
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